Archive for February, 2008
Why I Used Turbo Tax
I have a confession to make. Even though I do taxes every day (and passed the CPA exam in October!) I’ve used Turbo Tax for the past three years to do my taxes. The reason? It’s so darn simple. They’ve really made the software just about idiot-proof for those of us that don’t have overly [...]
Did CEOs Time Charitable Donations Too?
The muckracking professor whose research lead to the whole stock option backdating scandal (albeit, a decade later) is back at it again. Apparently, he’s now looking to see whether insiders backdated stock donations to their charitable foundations to “maximize tax benefits”.
As Portfolio points out, there are two ways that insiders could get this lucky: one legal [...]
Maybe She Watched One Too Many Sopranos Episodes?
The State of New Jersey has a certain, shall we say, reputation with tax folks. Not only are they one of the most taxpayer-unfriendly states, but the bureaucracy to fix one of their many mistakes makes you want to jump out the window.
New Jersey is one of the states (along with West Virginia) leading the [...]
Outage
I apologize for the lack of content. The flu has ravaged our family, I’ve been travelling for work, and our home computer has been non-functional. More to come, hopefully next week!
Tornadoes Leave At Least 45 Dead
While everyone is worried about delegate counts (and who thought we had a more complicated system than the Electoral College?), my thoughts and prayers go out to all of those in our neighboring states that were torn apart by the tornadoes last night. The picture below is one of the outer walls of a Memphis [...]
Does Robocalling Work?
Being in Missouri, we get bombarded by robocalls (yeah, thanks for exempting yourselves when passing the Do Not Call list). I have to wonder, do they work? Are they like spam and work for X% of people and piss off everybody else? Or are they just so cheap that it really doesn’t matter if it [...]
Hey, I’m on Facebook
I still don’t know what to do with it, but I’m on Facebook. So, if you have an account and want another friend to show off, look me up (kirk at kirkwalsh dot com).
